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Health

Morocco plans to administer third dose of COVID-19 vaccine

FILE PHOTO: An elderly man receives the COVID-19 vaccine during a national coronavirus vaccination campaign, in Sale, Morocco January 29, 2021. REUTERS/Shereen Talaat

Morocco will soon start giving a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, the Health Ministry said on Friday.

Morocco has administered the most doses in Africa, inoculating 19.8 million people out of a population of about 36 million, mostly with Sinopharm, AstraZeneca and Pfizer jabs.

(Reporting by Ahmed El Jechtimi; Editing by Leslie Adler)

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